Word: pacts
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...August, the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia with 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops, ending the Prague Spring...
...pact is limiting our defense capabilities at a time when national security has been directly threatened. While inhibited by this agreement, we remain vulnerable to future missile attacks by rogue nations or terrorist groups...
Koizumi's appeal isn't just about cleaning up politics and fixing the economy. He is also tapping into nationalistic sentiment. He advocates tinkering with the U.S. security pact and the Constitution to give Japan's military more flexibility. Last month he visited Yasukuni, the controversial Shinto war shrine where Japan's war dead, including war criminals, are honored. "You can't overestimate how much patriotism drives his thinking," say Jesper Koll, chief economist with Merrill Lynch in Japan and a Koizumi...
...presidential campaign, Kim knew he couldn't win enough seats to govern because the bulk of his support was in Cholla. So he joined with ultra-conservative Kim Jong Pil, the United Liberal Democrats party leader who bolted from the ruling coalition last week. Many saw it as a pact with the devil. In 1961, J.P. (as he is known) had set up the notorious Korean Central Intelligence Agency, which harassed the future President and regularly interrogated and tortured his aides. (J.P. was Prime Minister when Kim was kidnapped.) Says Kang Young Che, a speechwriter and translator...
...President Putin meets with Bush in November. Withdrawal from the ABM Treaty, considered the cornerstone of arms control between Russia and the U.S., requires six months' formal notification. A Pentagon plan to begin missile defense testing at a site in Alaska in the spring would necessitate abandoning the ABM pact by late fall. Russia made no official reply to the announcement. BRITAIN Tory Story The battle for leadership of the Conservative Party heated up, as ballot papers were sent to 300,000 party members and former Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major weighed in behind contenders Iain Duncan Smith...